Avalanche fire Francois Allaire, 2 other coaches following abysmal season

Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar will have some new faces on his staff to work with next season.

Goalie coach Francois Allaire, along with assistants Tim Army and Dave Farrish, will not return for 2017-18, the club announced Tuesday.

The dismissals come on the heels of an awful campaign in which the Avalanche amassed just 48 points, the lowest total of any team in a full season since the adoption of the shootout.

Allaire is likely the most well known of the three, having won three Stanley Cups while serving as goalie coach of the Montreal Canadiens (1986, 1993) and Anaheim Ducks (2007), with both Patrick Roy and Jean-Sebastien Giguere playing massive roles under Allaire's tutelage.

Army had served as an assistant coach in Colorado since 2012, while Farrish joined the staff in 2015.